I am saddest for my son.

[Maddy McCall]

He is ten years old. Since he became old enough to understand the political process, he has only known of the Bush presidency.

So sad to see a cynical ten-year-old. Saddest of all, his generation will be the cannon fodder for the wars in the Middle East that Bush now believe he has the mandate to initiate. His generation will incur the huge tax burden to finance Bush wars. His generation will not have the choice to control their own fertility. His generation will never know what it was like to work forty hours a week and have sufficient income to purchase a home and provide for a family.

Our children will suffer most. That is why I am so sad today. :cry:

[wtmusic]

1. Mine is 9

and they bounce back pretty quickly (maybe we can learn something from them) ;-)

[Maddy McCall]

2. Mine isn't bouncing back...

He's been crying this morning. He's home sick, so I am spending a good deal of my time comforting him.

He just can't understand it. His cynicism scares me.

[wtmusic]

10. jc, reality check

Everyone is disappointed, disgusted. But this is the moment when we find the true measure of our strength, and you are his example. We either throw in the towel or we pick up the pieces and move on.

[Bjornsdotter]

3. I feel the same way...

...I feel that I let down my teens. My daughter went to school today looking totally defeated...of course she was one of the few Kerry supporters so it will be a long day for her.

BTW....how is your son feeling? Hope he's feeling better and the fever is gone.

Hugs,
Kim :hug:

[Maddy McCall]

4. Fever is gone. He's moody...the prednisone has him feeling edgy.

But he is feeling better, physically. Emotionally, he's pretty shellshocked.

:hug:

[SmokingJacket]

5. My son too.

He's seven, is already extremely political, is outraged that anyone would even consider MAKING a bomb, let alone use one. He dressed up as George Washington for Halloween. The kid is totally crushed.

I feel like I shouldn't have let him get so involved -- I didn't push it or even encourage it, but I did let him.

I just got back from the bookstore, where I bought him a pile of his favorite books that I usually insist he get out of the library. There is CONSOLATION IN LITERATURE, if not too many other places at the moment.

I will leave the country if I don't think he can have a future here. That's the only thing that will make me leave.

[keith the dem]

6. Up all night with same thoughts

These are the same thoughts that kept me up all night last night. What kind of future can my daughters expect. They are 11 and 13 years old. I believe that a large part of *'s victory was of unfounded hatred of gays. Much the same way that Hitler's power was obtained by unfounded hatred of Jews (and gays). I pray that our country can see it's error without the violence and death that Germany and other fascist states had to endure before becoming liberal democracies.

[lthuedk]

7. This is the new america:

http://www.light-to-dark.com/new_god_country.html

My son understands, as anyone with oxygen reaching their brain. We hang together as a family against the now mandated tyranny.

Stephen Pitt

[snacker]

8. I just don't know

how we can explain this to our children.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. My son is 17. He plans on working how on social activism causes

Catholic Worker, ACLU. He is giving up any hope for the two party system.

[quaoar]

11. My daughter is 10

She was dumbfounded when Bush won her school's election. She made a cardboard tombstone with "Here Lies George Bush" (clever, eh?) written on it and put it in the yard as a Halloween decoration.

We listen to AAR together every morning in the car on the way to school.

[lazarus]

12. my daughter's 12

one of her friends called me last night in tears that Bush was going to win.

Bush made a 12 year old cry.

[proud patriot]

13. My son is 8

I will teach him well, for the world ahead :cry:

[Oddman]

14. I don't have children.

I feel for all you mothers and fathers - I can't even imagine how hard this must be for you . . .